[rescue] Resurrecting an IBM RS/6000 model 590

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Sun Feb 8 21:22:34 CST 2004


On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:18:14PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> I stopped using UPS for stuff I care about when they destroyed a Sun
> SPARCstorage 100.  It was shipped full of drives and trays and would
> no-longer sit flat on a table.  How do you -do- that to something that's
> almost 80% solid metal??

Never underestimate the effects of dropping a package off an aircraft's
laoding ramp (or an overhead conveyor belt in a shipping warehouse, for
that matter).


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